List of buzzwords

This is a list of common buzzwords which form part of the jargon of corporate, academic, government, and everyday work and social environments, as well as by writers and public speakers.

General conversation

• Alignment^[1]
• At the end of the day^[1]
• Break through the clutter^[2]
• Bring to the table^[3]
• Buzzword^[2]
• Clear goal^[4]
• Disruptive innovation^[5]
• Diversity^[6]
• Empowerment^[7][8]
• Exit strategy^[7]
• Face time^[7]
• Generation X^[1]
• Globalization^[9]
• Going forward (instead of "in the future")^[10]
• Grow^[11] – as in "grow the business".
• Headlights - to gain visibility into
• Holistic approach
• Impact^[11] – instead of effect as a noun
• Leverage^[2] – used as verb to mean magnify, multiply, augment, or increase.
• Millennial^[1]
• Moving forward^[12]
• New normal^[13]
• On the runway^[1]
• Organic growth^[2]
• Outside the box^[1][11]
• Paradigm^[14]
• Paradigm shift^[2][15]
• Proactive^[11][14]
• Push the envelope
• Reach out^[16][17] – as in "I'll reach out to sales to get the latest figures".
• Sea change^[2]
• Sisterhood^[18]
• Spin-up^[19]
• Strategic Communication (also known as "Stratcom")
• Streamline^[2]
• Survival strategy^[1]
• Sustainability
• Synergy^{[2][8][11][14]}
• Unpack (as in "Let me unpack that statement.")^[20]
• Wellness^[21]
• Wheelhouse (as in "That's in my wheelhouse.")^[22]
• Win-win^[1]

Education

• Accountable talk^[23]
• Higher-order thinking^[24]
• Invested in^[25]
• Run like a business^[26]
• Student engagement^[27][28][29]
• Common Core
• Bloom's Taxonomy
• Differentiated instruction
• Digital Literacy
• Flipped Classroom
• Guided Reading
• Instructional Scaffolding
• Multiple Intelligences
• Project-Based Learning
• Adaptive Learning
• Brain Break
• Cooperative Learning

Business, sales and marketing

• Analytics^[30]
• Ballpark figure^[7]
• Bandwidth^[1]
• Business-to-Business^[7] – also known as B2B.
• Business-to-Consumer^[7] – also known as B2C.
• Best of Breed^[7]
• Best practices^[7]
• Bizmeth^[31] – portmanteau of "business method".
• Brand^[31]
• Brick-and-mortar^[15]
• Business process outsourcing^[32][33] – also known as BPO.
• Buzzword compliant^[34]
• Building Capabilities
• Circle Back
• Client-centric^[7]
• Cloud computing^[35]
• Close the loop^[36]
• Co-opetition^[37]
• Come-to-Jesus moment^[38]
• Content marketing
• Core competency^[39]
• Creative ^[40]
• Customer-centric^[7](also customer-centric mindset)
• Deep dive
• Downsizing^[7]
• Drill down ^[41]
• Drinking the Kool-Aid^[7] –trusting in things offered by authority figures
• Early-stage^[42]
• Employer Branding
• Eating your own dogfood^[7][31] –use a product yourself which you sell to others.
• Enable^[43]
• Entitlement
• Enterprise^[31]
• Event horizon^[44]
• Eyeballs^[15]
• -free, as in cholesterol-free seaweed or gluten-free eggs, lacking some putatively harmful substance that it never contained in the first place.
• Free value^[2]
• Fulfilment issues^[31]
• Generation Y
• Granular^[31]
• Herding cats^[7]
• Holistic (approach/integration)^[45]
• Home real estate usage for an unoccupied dwelling unit
• Hyperlocal^[46]
• Innovation^[47]
• Innovative^[40]
• Knowledge Process Outsourcing^[32] – also known as KPO.
• Leverage^[48]
• Logistics^[49] – Now commonly used for shipping, and shipping companies
• Long Tail^[50]
• Low Hanging Fruit^[2][51]
• Make it pop^[2]
• Mindshare^[15]
• Mission Critical^[15]
• Management Visibility^[15]
• New economy^[15]
• Next generation^[31]
• Offshoring^[44] – also known as Offshore outsourcing, or something being offshorable.
• Pain point^[17][52]
• Paralysis by Analysis^[53]
• Part of our DNA
• Passionate^[54]
• Peel back the onion
• Pick and Shovel Work
• Profit center
• Quick-win
• Return on Investment^[2] – also known as ROI.
• Reverse fulfilment^[31] – Processing returned products.
• Rightshoring^[55]
• Seamless (integration)^[56]
• Serum
• Share options^[31]
• Short Runway
• Silo (for "compartmentalize")
• Social Currency
• Socialize
• Solution^[1]
• SOX^[57] – abbreviation of Sarbanes-Oxley.
• Sustainability^[58]
• Storytelling
• Startup
• Strategy
• Synergy
• Take Offline^[59]
• Talent Relationship Management
• Tee off (begin something, i.e. a meeting or program)
• Touch Base
• Touchpoint^[60]
• Upselling
• Upcycling
• Value-added^[1]
• Visibility^[44]

Science and technology

• 4G^[57]
• Aggregator^[61]
• Agile^[62]
• Ajax^[8][57]
• Algorithm^[63]
• Benchmarking^[64]
• Back-end^[31]
• Beta^[8]
• Big data - larger data sets than last month
• Bleeding edge^[31]
• Blog^[61] – plus various other words that incorporate "blog"
• Bring your own Device - use of personal equipment (usually mobile) in a work environment
• Bricks-and-clicks^[31][31]
• Clickthrough^[31]
• Cloud^[65]
• CloudOps
• Collaboration^[66]
• Content management^[66]
• Content Management System^[61] – also known as CMS.
• Convergence^[67]
• Cross-platform^[31]
• Cyber-physical Systems (CSP)
• Datafication^[68]
• Data mining^[69] - any kind of data collection or analysis, even simple statistics such as taking averages on large data sets
• Data science^[70]
• Deep dive^[17]
• Deep web^[71] - used interchageably with "Dark web" even though they're not the same
• Design pattern^[72]
• DevOps^[73]
• Digital divide^[61]
• Digital Remastering^[74]
• Digital Rights Management^[8] – also known as DRM.
• Digital signage^[75]
• Disruptive Technologies^[76]
• Document management^[66]
• Dot-bomb^[15][31]
• E-learning^[77]
• Engine^[78]
• Enterprise Content Management^[61] – also known as ECM.
• Enterprise Service Bus^[79] – also known as ESB.
• Evolution - Often use ambiguously in political or sociological arguments in reference to theories of social Darwinism. (e.x. "Society has evolved.")
• Framework^[8]
• Folksonomy^[61]
• Fuzzy logic^[80]
• Growth Hacking
• HTML5^[81]
• Immersion^[82]
• Information superhighway / Information highway^[8]
• Internet of Things^[83]
• Innovation^[84]
• Mashup^[8]
• Mobile^[85]
• Modularity^[86][87]
• Nanotechnology^[88]
• Netiquette^[61]
• NFV- Network Function virtualization
• Next Generation^[82] (also "NextGen")
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Omnichannel
• Pandering
• Parsing
• PaaS
• Podcasting^[57][61]
• Portal^[31]
• Real-time^[61]
• Responsive Web Design^[89]
• Sensorization^[90]
• SaaS^[57]
• Scalability^[91][92]
• Skeuomorphic
• Social bookmarking^[57]
• Social software^[61]
• Software Defined _blank_
• SDN- Software defined Networking
• Spam^[61]
• Struts^[93]
• Sync-up^[15]
• Systems Development Life-Cycle
• Tagging^[61]
• Think outside the box^[61]
• Thought Leader
• Transmedia^[94]
• User generated content^[95]
• Viral
• Virtualization^[57]
• Vlogging^[61]
• Vortal^[96]
• Web 2.0^[8][57][61]
• Webinar^[31][61]
• Weblog^[61]
• Web services^[66]
• Wikiality^[97]
• Workflow^[66][98][99]

Politics and current affairs

• Big society^[100]
• Information society^[101]
• Political capital^[102]
• Statist^[103]
• Stakeholder^[104]

Other/Uncategorized

• Antifragile^[105]
• Best-in-class^[106]

See also

• Buzzword bingo
• Cant (language)
• Shibboleth
• Stunt word

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External links

• Investopedia's List of Buzz Words
• Global Language Monitor's Lists of Political, High Tech, Youthful Jargon
• Rhymer.net's Directory of Business Jargon and Buzzwords
• Exhaustive List of Jargons for MBAs
• The Most Overused Buzzwords in Public Relations